Sixth Form Lecture. The talk will examine examples of how the presence of a chiral carbon may affect the properties of a drug sometimes with tragic consequences. It will also look at how the brain processes the information that comes from the receptors in the nose and examines a number of cases where enantiomers have different smells.
                                
                                            
 
             
             
                             
                         
                         
                                 
                                         
                                                                                                     
                 
            